MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s budget proposal to convert Medicaid into a system of block grants is by Sam Brooke, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “We...

“Recently, there have been a number of incredibly alarming incidents where our partners at Al Otro Lado (AOL), a binational legal services organization that serves refugees and other migrants in Tijuana and California, have been...

The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, Director of the Intelligence Project for SPLC Action Fund. "At a time when cities all over the country are actively removing Confederate symbols from public spaces, it is...

Today, the Alabama District Attorneys Association announced the Alabama Forfeiture Accountability system, a voluntary data collection process for law enforcement to report on civil asset forfeiture in Alabama. The following...

KNOXVILLE — The National Immigration Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the law firm of Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harbison filed a lawsuit today on behalf of seven workers detained during an April 2018 immigration...

NEW ORLEANS – A directive by the Louisiana Department of Insurance orders bail bond companies and their insurers underwriting bail bonds in Orleans Parish to return an estimated $6 million in illegal profits to as many as 50,000...

NEW ORLEANS – Representing a Louisiana public defender, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and the Southern Poverty Law Center today filed suit against the City of New Orleans over its refusal to provide a map of the...

JACKSON, Miss. – On Wednesday, February 13, a federal district court in Mississippi granted class certification for the Plaintiffs in Hopkins v. Hosemann , a case seeking to reinstate voting rights for Mississippi citizens...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement, in response to Governor Kay Ivey’s prison construction plan, is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “We greet Governor Ivey’s announcement...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – This statement by Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is in response to a Friday evening press release by the Alabama Department of Corrections and Commissioner Jeff Dunn: “As the Court...

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippians impacted by the state’s unjust and outdated lifetime voting ban met at the Capitol with lawmakers today to urge the state legislature to swiftly take up and pass SB 2508, a bill that would restore...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been challenging Trump's asylum policies in the courts, including getting a federal judge to temporarily block the policy of denying asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border between...